# Ardent

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ardent/  
**Website:** https://docs.tryardent.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Ardent is a database branching platform for Postgres that lets developers and AI coding agents clone any production or development database in seconds into fully isolated, disposable branches. Each branch is isolated at both the compute and storage layers using copy-on-write, autoscales to zero when idle, and never touches production, so agents and CI/CD pipelines can run migrations, backfills, destructive tests, and risky experiments against production-like data with zero blast radius. Ardent exposes a REST API (api.tryardent.com), a first-party npm CLI (ardent-cli), and connectors for Supabase, AWS RDS, PlanetScale, and self-hosted Postgres 13+.

## Kin Score — 46.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 57.4 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 38.2 |
| Access Clarity | 38.2 |

## Agent readiness — 44.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Ardent v1-api-keys API** — The v1-api-keys API from Ardent — 2 operation(s) for v1-api-keys.
- **Ardent v1-branching API** — The v1-branching API from Ardent — 2 operation(s) for v1-branching.
- **Ardent v1-connectors API** — The v1-connectors API from Ardent — 10 operation(s) for v1-connectors.
- **Ardent v1-operations API** — The v1-operations API from Ardent — 1 operation(s) for v1-operations.
- **Ardent v1-orgs API** — The v1-orgs API from Ardent — 7 operation(s) for v1-orgs.
- **Ardent v1-projects API** — The v1-projects API from Ardent — 2 operation(s) for v1-projects.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Ardent MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ardent Agentic Access** — 35 operations · 23 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Ardent Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ardent Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Database, PostgreSQL, Database Branching, Developer Tools, Sandbox, AI Agents, CI/CD, Data Infrastructure, Testing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ardent/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.